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Assistance to Deserted Indian Women Scheme, 2011: Protecting Abandoned Overseas Spouses

The Assistance to Deserted Indian Women Scheme was introduced to address the distress faced by Indian women abandoned by Non-Resident Indian (NRI) or foreign spouses. It is a welfare measure that supports women through local Indian community organisations, women’s groups, and NGOs empanelled with Indian Missions, supplemented by limited government funding (Ministry of External Affairs, 2011). Many such women encountered financial hardship, lack of legal support, and difficulties in accessing counselling or filing cases for maintenance, alimony, or divorce in foreign jurisdictions (Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, 2014).

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National Monetisation Pipeline 2.0 (2025–30) Advancing India’s Asset Monetisation Framework Beyond 2021

The idea of asset recycling was created globally to help solve the traditional issue for governments known as "the sovereign dilemma" or how to provide new and better public services while keeping their public debt from increasing. The first state (in this case, Australia's New South Wales) to implement asset recycling in its post-recession economic recovery in the 2010s demonstrated that with a few key steps a government can create the cash flow needed to develop new public assets. The concept is simple: build a public asset, de-risk that public asset until it produces steady cash flowing into your budget, then lease those cash-flowing rights to private investors. Thereby immediately creating an influx of funds to start developing the next generation of public assets.

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Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana (BSVY), 2020 — Uttar Pradesh  

World Day Against Child Labour falls every year on 12 June, and it usually passes with the sort of solemn statements governments issue on days like this: acknowledgment of a problem, a promise to do better. In 2020, Uttar Pradesh used the occasion differently. With the country still in the grip of the first wave of COVID-19, and with the informal economy that employed a large share of the state's working children in visible disarray, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath used 12 June 2020 to launch the Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana (BSVY), a scheme built on a fairly simple premise: pay a working child's family enough, regularly enough, that sending the child to school stops being a financial loss (Government of Uttar Pradesh, 2020, as cited in Press Trust of India [PTI], 2020).

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